Because nobody replied to this issue yet and it took me quite some time to find the solution, I thought I would reply to this message for other people who are facing the same.
For me, the issue was solved by adding UTF-8 encoding to my body.
I am sending the post request from my java code and in my case, I had to add the following:
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
restTemplate.getMessageConverters()
.add(0, new StringHttpMessageConverter(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));